About This Week’s Guest:
In this Episode, you will learn:
- Jessica’s background and experience
- Veteran mental health beyond PTSD and TBI
- Misdiagnosing a mental health condition due to snap judgements
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Examples of negative cognitions
- Thoughts leading to both emotions and behaivors
- Challenging negative thoughts to influence motions and behaviors
- Behaviors as an entry point to awareness
- Identifying themes and patterns in thought
- Awareness of problems coming from inside and outisde
- Common patters of negative thought:
- Catastrophizing
- Mind reading
- Black and white thinking
- All or nothing thingking
- Absolute thinking
- Three Cs of CBT: Catch it, Check it, Change it
- Thoughts and behaviors being appropriate or inappropriate based on which environment you’re in
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